Last night the students gave their guest lecture. It was awesome! We’ll have a more detailed report tomorrow, but this image was already posted on twitter, so I thought I’d get it up here as a sneak preview for the rest of the lecture. Part of the students’ design concept was constellations and stars, so they have another nice visualization of “data science profiles” as stars. It will make more sense when you see it. Kaz Sakamoto, Eurry Kim and Vaibhav Bhandari created this as part of a larger class collaboration.
Tonight is the last class of the first iteration of Introduction to Data Science. I’m excited for the first half of tonight when the students will take over and deliver their lecture. They’ve sat through the entire semester, now it’s their turn. What do they have to say about Data Science? I’m looking forward to [...]
Each Tuesday, Eurry Kim, a student in our class, picks one example of data visualization to share with us. This is the last one. Thanks for taking on this challenge this semester, Eurry. You did an awesome job! Eurry writes: With all this talk about big data, big potential, and big problems, I was feeling [...]
This is a guest post from our course’s teaching assistant, Ben Reddy. Ben is a second year PhD student in the statistics department. He’s had the chance to view the class from a unique angle, so I wanted for us to get his perspective. Also, thank you Ben for your support this semester! We’re nearing [...]
Dear Students, Yesterday Gil Press featured our class in his Forbes column, Big Data News of the Week. I’d like to take the opportunity to briefly discuss the ideas discussed in his article, as well my broader struggles with the celebrification of data scientists. Our class in the press I call this to your attention [...]
Each week Cathy O’Neil blogs about the class. Cross-posted from mathbabe.org. The week in Rachel Schutt’s Data Science course at Columbia we had two speakers. The first was David Crawshaw, a Software Engineer at Google who was trained as a mathematician, worked on Google+ in California with Rachel, and now works in NY on search. [...]
Tonight we have two guest speakers, David Crawshaw and Josh Wills, both of whom I’ve had the pleasure of working with at Google. I hesitate to call them “data engineers” because that term is as problematic or potentially overloaded as “data scientist”, but suffice it to say that they’ve both worked as software engineers and [...]
